Saturday, November 12, 2016

The Homestead Hobbyist, Let's start with our newest contributor!

We are still using Giveaway Tools to help us manage the giveaways. The plus is that the tool keeps track of all of your entries and then pulls a winner for me at the end. If there's something better out there, I'd love help finding it. I will be creating a little giveaway tutorial a little later in the month. Perhaps that will help us work out the kinks.

This yarn is small-batch spun at a mill near Seattle from small-batch, custom-designed blends of fiber.
This skein is 460 yards of fingering-weight 3-ply yarn in the Bloodstain colorway from my Crime Scene Collection of Savage Blends.

I love the bloodstain fingering weight yarn you're giving away. Mind, she isn't showing any other colors of that yarn at the moment, or I might pick another color. Or I might not, that's a nice deep red for the coming holiday season.

I'm not entering to win this skein (it would be like cheating, since I already have more than I have time to knit with!), but I wanted to let some folks know--I'll have "Suit Up, It's A Mess In There," "Murder Weapon," and "Eye Witness" in fingering and DK up in the shop in March!

The mill just received the fiber today, and I'll have the yarn in late January. I'll be debuting the new colors at Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat and Stitches West in February, and I'll put them up in the shop shortly after. I'm still working on figuring out which will be the next colors I turn into yarn in 2017 (I'm designing a few more neutral colors to expand the Crime Scene Collection of spinning fiber as well, so those might be my next choices for yarn).

so many beautiful & interesting things to choose from but one of my favorites is Murder Weapon. It is such an striking blend of purples with those pops of blood-like red. It really holds your attention.

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